I Was Part of 303 Creative's Case. I Back Gay Marriage—but SCOTUS Is Right

Contents:

• ‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN
• WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
• SUPREME COURT RUL GAY MARRIAGE IS A NATNWI RIGHT
• I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT
• LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN

In 1981, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnership, which also granted hospal visatn rights and other benefs. Bh that would outlaw same-sex marriag the whole untry, ten typilly nservative tat along wh Oregon enacted state-level bans on gay marriag. In 2010, Massachetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, found Sectn 3 of DOMA that fed marriage as a unn between one man and one woman to be unnstutnal, 2013, Uned Stat v.

By 2015 (the year Obergefell was cid) thirty-six stat already issued marriage licens to same-sex upl and more than 20 unti around the world had already legalized gay marriage, startg wh the Netherlands 2000. Judge Heyburn held that “homosexual persons nstute a quasi-spect class, ” and clared that Kentucky’s law banng same-sex marriag vlat the Equal Protectn Clse of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Uned Stat Constutn. WASHINGTON — Same-sex marriage is a nstutnal right anywhere the Uned Stat, the Supreme Court led Friday, a historic moment for the gay rights movement that reflects a dramatic shift public opn.

"No unn is more profound than marriage, for embodi the hight ials of love, fily, votn, sacrifice and fay, " Jtice Anthony Kennedy said, readg om the majory opn, while some the dience fought 5-4 cisn, after s of legal and polil battl across the untry, ends prohibns more than a dozen stat, and jubilant gay and lbian upl went to lol offic Friday for marriage licens.

WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

Florida's ban, approved by referendum 2008, was validated earlier this year by a feral urt cisn, beg the latt a seri of velopments that left more than 70 percent of Amerins livg plac where gay marriage is legal. "It's my hope that the term 'gay marriage' will soon be a thg of the past, that om this day forward, will simply be 'marriage, ' " said Jim Obergefell, an Oh man at the heart of Obergefell vs. He stood on the steps of the high urt, where people hugged and a gay chos group sang the Star-Spangled Banner.

Moments later Obergefell received a ngratulatory phone ll om Print Barack Obama, who opposed gay marriage 2008 but supported 2012. Kennedy, appoted by Print Ronald Reagan 1988, aga provid the ccial vote a gay rights years ago, the same aln stck down a feral law nyg benefs to same-sex upl but stopped short of sayg same-sex upl have a nstutnal right to lg announced by the urt on Friday alt wh bans Oh, Kentucky, Tennsee and Michigan.

SUPREME COURT RUL GAY MARRIAGE IS A NATNWI RIGHT

"The stat that had still banned same-sex marriage and were most directly affected by Friday's lg are: Alabama, Arkansas, Geia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, most of Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oh, South Dakota, Tennsee and began issug marriage licens on cisn me amid a rapid shift public opn about gay marriage. And both oppose a nstutnal amendment allowg stat to fe marriage, an ia floated by rival Stt Walker of are an timated 390, 000 married same-sex upl the Uned Stat, acrdg to UCLA's Williams Instute, which tracks the mographics of gay and lbian Amerins.

I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT

In a historic cisn for the gay right’s movement, the Supreme Court led on Friday that the U. Kennedy, who wrote the majory opn, said that gay and lbian upl have a fundamental right to marry.

Same-sex marriage supporters celebrate after the Supreme Court’s landmark lg on gay marriage. Gay rights supporters celebrate Friday after the U. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTPooja Mandagere, left, and Natalie Thompson outsi the Supreme Court on Friday after led favor of same-sex Mills/The New York TimSli 1 of 14 Pooja Mandagere, left, and Natalie Thompson outsi the Supreme Court on Friday after led favor of same-sex Mills/The New York TimJune 26, 2015WASHINGTON — In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the Supreme Court led by a 5-to-4 vote on Friday that the Constutn guarante a right to same-sex marriage.

”In a send dissent, Jtice Anton Slia mocked the soarg language of Jtice Kennedy, who has bee the natn’s most important judicial champn of gay rights.

LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

”Jtice Kennedy was the thor of all three of the Supreme Court’s prev gay rights landmarks. Texas, which stck down laws makg gay sex a all of those cisns, Jtice Kennedy embraced a visn of a livg Constutn, one that evolv wh societal chang. ”Gay rights advot had nstcted a reful ligatn and public relatns strategy to build momentum and brg the issue to the Supreme Court when appeared ready to le their favor.

Gay rights advot, the chief jtice wrote, would have been better off wh a victory achieved through the polil procs, particularly “when the wds of change were heng at their backs.

Texas, which stck down laws makg gay sex a crime. WASHINGTON – Five years after the Supreme Court's landmark cisn extendg marriage rights to gay men and lbians natnwi, same-sex marriage has bee "so not a big al.